Accessibility Statement
Clipnote is for everyone who loves words, whether you read them, hear them, or both. We want the app and clipnote.social to work for people with disabilities, and we are working toward the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. We have not yet had the app or the website independently audited.
1. What Clipnote Already Does
- Spoken posts can be read. Audio is transcribed into time-synced text that highlights along with playback, so you can read instead of listen.
- Written work can be heard. Writers can have their work read aloud by a natural AI voice, so readers who prefer listening aren't left out. Posts read this way carry a label.
- Text follows your phone's size setting. The app respects the larger text sizes you set on your phone. On the feed, text stops growing at 1.5 times normal so a page stays within the screen. Use the reading view for larger text.
- Screen reader labels. Many buttons and controls carry labels for VoiceOver on iPhone and TalkBack on Android.
- Contrast. Text is designed for strong contrast against its background. We have not measured every screen.
- Our policy pages (Terms, Privacy, Copyright, Child Safety, and this page) are built with clear headings, a skip link, visible keyboard focus, underlined links, and text that resizes without breaking.
2. Known Gaps We Are Working On
We are in beta and still improving. Today:
- Most animations, including the moving backgrounds on posts, do not yet follow your phone's "Reduce Motion" setting.
- Not every screen has been fully tested with VoiceOver and TalkBack.
- Some buttons may still be missing screen reader labels.
- Transcripts are made by speech recognition and can contain errors.
- Sidenote videos have sound but no transcript.
- The sign-in screen's small print is low contrast.
3. Tell Us About a Barrier
If anything in Clipnote is hard or impossible for you to use, we want to know. Email support@clipnote.social with the subject "Accessibility" and tell us what you were trying to do, which device you use, and any assistive technology you use. We aim to reply within 5 business days.
If you need any of our policies in another format, such as plain text or large print, email the same address and we will send it.
4. Changes
We update this statement as we improve Clipnote. The date and version at the top show when it last changed.